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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictato...more

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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

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I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of compet...more

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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

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Presidents are selected, not elected.

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its ...more

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War is young men dying and old men talking

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From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away...more

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A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to ...more

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Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "mali...more

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I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

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For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled u...more

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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.